Furniture makers often get messages from buyers to downplay home furniture designs because the area of the house is smaller and many of them live in apartments or the like. That’s why they need smaller beds, smaller cabinets, smaller dining tables, and so on. With this basis, furniture makers began to make various home furniture products in a minimalist and functional size.

A trend in some furniture vendors this year is small furniture that fits smaller living rooms. The furniture industry trade show, which is often held by large plazas, displays thousands of new furniture that consumers can see in stores in a few months. Furniture manufacturers are responding to streamlining space and the increasing of city life by reducing the scale of dressing tables, coffee tables, beds, and the like. They compressed the home office into a folding cabinet. And they cut the length of the couch and the entertainment center stretched along the wall.

For example, the standard dressing table size has been trimmed from about 183 cm to 163 cm to make it stand in smaller rooms, but the height has increased to fit higher ceilings and keep the storage capacity.

Furniture collection for dining room and bedroom, many designed in a contemporary style and simple size for condos or urban apartments. Trends are tracking the slowing down of the residential real estate market and demographic changes. More people are choosing to live alone with apartments, and apartment becoming the more popular choices of residence in the metropolitan area. Therefore, this smaller household also drives large demand for smaller furniture items.

Smaller furniture is also in line with the home builder’s movement, to reduce the scale of several new homes. Smaller furniture is also part of a trend that shows consumers increasingly want to eliminate clutter and manage what is left. There is a new change in the way people look at luxury.

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